Cerritos, California. The company went public in 1988. It was one of Taiwan's initial technology initial public offerings. Microtek has research and development labs located in California and Taiwan dedicated to optics design, mechanical and electronic engineering, software development, product quality, and technological advancement. According to AnnaLee Saxenian's 2006 book The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy, Microtek has produced more than 20% of the worldwide image scanner market. 1989: Ulead Systems In 1989, Microtek invested in Ulead Systems (based in Taipei) which became the first publicly traded software company in Taiwan in 1999. Ulead System was founded by Lotus Chen, Lewis Liaw and Way-Zen Chen three colleagues from Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry. Microtek helped Ulead by jointly purchasing CCD sensors from Kodak which benefited both companies as it was a component not yet locally produced at the time. Products Herbarium Specimen Digitization ObjectScan 1600 is an on-top scanner designed for capturing high resolution image of herbarium specimen. The device is bundled with ScanWizard Graphy which provides scanner setting and image correction tools. The maximum resolution is 1600 dpi. ScanWizard Botany is a workstation software for specimen image processing, electronic data capture software, and uploading metadata to database or server. The software has OCR (Optical Character Recognition) function which can automatically detect label information and read barcode information on botanical collections. The information will be saved as metadata. It also includes image processing tools such as brightness adjustment and contrast adjustment. MiVAPP Botany is a botanical database management system and web-server system. This system allows a botanical garden, university, and museum to share their collection online. Operations Taiwan Microtek International Inc.: Headquarters, Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu City Taipei Office: Da-an District, Taipei City Mainland China Shanghai Microtek Technology Co., Ltd: Shanghai Shanghai Microtek Medical Device Co., Ltd: Shanghai Shanghai Microtek Trading Co., Ltd: Shanghai Microtek Computer Technology (Wu Jiang) Co., Ltd: Jiangsu See also Ulead Systems List of companies in Taiwan References 1980 establishments in Taiwan Computer peripheral companies Display technology companies Electronics companies of Taiwan Manufacturing companies based in Hsinchu Computer companies established in 1980 Manufacturing companies established in 1980 Companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange Taiwanese brands